The Judicial Service Staff Association of Ghana (JUSAG) has threatened to embark on an industrial strike action effective November 13, 2019. According to JUSAG, the intended strike action is to demand a review of their current salaries. They state that their current salary was implemented in the year 2017 and to be renewed bi-annually. A statement by JUSAG stated that ...

It has emerged that the top superior police officer, who was invited by the security agencies over the ongoing investigations into an alleged coup plot, is COP/Mr. Nathan Kofi Boakye. When DAILY GUIDE reached him yesterday, he said he was invited by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI), but said “I did not keep long. I went there at about ...

Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has disclosed that the Akufo-Addo government is committed to raising funds internally to support electoral activities across the country for the Presidential and Parliamentary polls in 2020. This he says is in line with the government’s “Ghana Beyond Aid agenda” and will mean that government will not be looking for support from donor partners to ...

A Deputy Ranking Member on Parliament’s Education Committee, Dr. Clement Apaak has called on the government to come out with a specific date as to when basic schools will receive learning materials for the new curriculum which started in September 2019. According to him, the “Nana Akufo-Addo led NPP Government owes Ghanaians an explanation as to why two months on, ...

The World Bank has thrown out an audit report sent it by the Akufo-Addo-led government and has ordered it to use the Ghana Audit Service (GAS) to conduct “an in-depth Review” of all procurement related expenditures from the period spanning the life of the administration from January 2017 to June 30, 2019. The rejected report, had come from a private ...

The Akufo-Addo administration acting through Cocobod is to inject a 600m USD stimulus package into the cocoa sector through a Cocoa Productivity Enhancement Program which will among other things step up Ghana’s production to 1.5m tones by 2027. The stimulus will target rehabilitation of plantations, improvement in storage and domestic processing, stimulation of local consumption as well as efforts to ...

Emmanuel Nvojo, who has been sacked as Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Jomoro Constituency of Western Region, got the shock of his life when he was chased out of the party’s executives meeting. Information indicates that he was not allowed to sit in a meeting organised by the General Secretary of the party, John Boadu to ...

Even though Parliamentarians do serious work in the august house of legislature, Fritz Baffour, a former member of the house and a journalist, has described the legislative arm of government as the biggest ‘comedy’ club he has ever come across. The former stand-up comedian said he would have loved to combine his parliamentary work with his act “because parliament is ...

A report by the Parliamentary Committee on Defence and Interior is recommending the decriminalization of the possession and use of marijuana (wee). “Ghana needs to take a cue from other progressive countries and consider alternatives to punishment or incarceration of people who use the drug and other alternatives to ending the criminalization of people who use drugs. Criminalization of drug ...

Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah says, the less than three years, Akufo-Addo government has held more cabinet meetings than the Mahama administration did in the entire fours that it was in office. According to him, the President holds his cabinet meetings to ensure that he is meticulously in know of all the major developments in the respective ministries. He said ...